Problem by declaring a resource "antcontrib"

[Jens]

Hello,

I have a problem with my build.xml file since I´m using ...

A)
WinXP Prof
SDK 1.4.2_12
Eclipse 3.2 (Lomboz for JavaEE Dev 3.1.2 installed too)
ant4eclipse 0.4.1
ant-contrib 0.6

Before I used ...

B)
WinXP Prof
SDK 1.4.2_08
Eclipse 3.1.1 (without Lomboz)
ant4eclipse 0.3.1
ant-contrib 0.3

and the build.xml worked fine.

Both installations use ANT 1.6.5 that comes within Eclipse. The ant-contrib-x.x.jar is in the lib Folder of the ANT-Plugin.

In installation B) I could use ...

<taskdef resource="net/sf/ant4eclipse/antlib.xml" />
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" />

Environment:
ANT_HOME = xxx\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5
Path = plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5\bin

I do not need to set the CLASSPATH, it works fine.

In installation B) I use ...

<taskdef resource="net/sf/ant4eclipse/antlib.xml" />
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" />

Environment:
ANT_HOME = xxx\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5
Path = xxx\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5\bin

It doesn´t work. There is a message ...

"Buildfile: C:\JavaDev\Eclipse_Tomcat\webapps\odLogin\build.xml
  [taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties. It could not be found.
init:"

So I set the CLASSPATH "xxx\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5\lib" but it doesn´t work too.

Only if I use ...

<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" >
  <classpath>
    <pathelement location="xxx/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.6.5/lib/ant-contrib-0.6.jar" />
  </classpath>
</taskdef>

The message will no longer displayed.

Any ideas?

Thx,
Jens

[Jens]

sry ... the second "In installation B)" will mean "In installation A)"

[Matt Inger]

Seems like a problem with the eclipse classloader.  I've never had a problem running ant scripts from clipse 3.2, though I don't typically use their ant installation.  I usually re-assign the ant home.